Spring-Summer 2024, SOLID HOMME studies the evolution of uniforms coded for craft. Sampling elements from multigenerational work and utility wear, formality, and industrial design, the collection riffs on familiar staples to activate new modes. Nostalgia resides not only in vintage references, but also South Korea’s collective memory of uniform-wearing, a standardisation here liberated and reconfigured for the contemporary moment: we choose our own standard, we choose our tribe.

Workwear interfaces with streetwear to produce straight silhouettes relaxed into oversized proportions. Hard-wearing, heavy cotton twill in cropped jackets shape the structured top fit, softened in jerseys and glossy, lightweight technical fabrics. Denim bleached on edges and seams mixes with knitwear ranging from retro crochet and sporty mesh to transparent knits styled over shirts. Codes native to manual work—the workshop apron, bug suit, and carpenter’s pencil holder—are upgraded to fresh future states, while the button-down shirt and tie, trademark of the corporate grind, stamps each look for a literal take on uniformity. With a cool mineral base and earthy sub-tones, the SS24 collection projects a practical palette countered by point colours of Eggplant, Faïence, Lime, and Sunrise. Steel frames found in modern industrial design inspire both piping elements and metal detailing, while zippers line the lengths of double-layered pant legs, hoodie pockets, and jacket sleeves for modular styling.

Gridded construction plastic recodes the SS24 venue—La Grande Verrière, espace privatisée du Palais de Tokyo—into a site of industrial realness. Suspended between the audience, the plastic sheeting cuts the runway in half to build a model pathway that experiments with rawness and transparency. Looks become blurred in a visual play that magnifies the Cutler & Gross opticals framing each face.

STYLIST & ART DIRECTING – JULIAN GANIO
PRODUCTION & VIDEO – EYESIGHT GROUP
CASTING – MARIE LÉVY
HAIR – RAMONA ESCHBACH
MAKE UP – PATRICK GLATTHAAR
MUSIC – JOHN GOSLING
HOUSE PHOTO – LUCA TOMBOLINI
PHOTO (BACKSTAGE) – ROBIN JORIS
EYEWEAR – CUTLER & GROSS